GRADUATE COUNCIL
for the
February, 2004
Meeting
Graduate Council meetings are held monthly, August through May, in Mason Hall Room D5, from 1:30-3:00. See schedule for exact dates. All meetings are open to the general George Mason University community.
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of November Minutes
III. Announcements
IV. Discussion Items
V. Old Business
VI. New Business
Proposals from the Graduate School of Education
Contact Person: Joan Isenberg, 3-2037, mgoor@gmu.edu
New Courses (Action Item):
EDCI 645 Curriculum Development in Mathematics Education
EDCI 646 Mathematics Education Leadership for School Change
Modified Track (Announcement):
Early Childhood Certificate/Track in the Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning Program (ASTL)
Proposals from the School of Computational Sciences
Contact Person: Peter Becker, 3-3619, pbecker@gmu.edu
New Courses (Action Item):
CSI 885 Atomistic Modeling of Materials
EOS 600 Communication Skills for Scientists
EOS 721 Biogeography
EOS 722 Regional and Global Issues in the Earth Sciences
EOS 756 Physical Principles of Remote Sensing
EOS 758 Digital Processing of Remote Sensing Imagery
EOS 760 Remote Sensing Applications
EOS 771 Algorithms and Modeling in GIS
EOS 772 Distributed Geographic Information Systems
EOS 773 Interoperability of Geographic Information Systems
EOS 791 Advanced Spatial Statistics
New Certificate (Action Item):
Graduate Certificate in Remote Sensing and Image Processing
Modified Courses (Announcement):
BINF 998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal
BINF 999 Doctoral Dissertation
CSI 998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal
CSI 999 Doctoral Dissertation
NEUR 998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal
NEUR 999 Doctoral Dissertation
PSCI 998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal
PSCI 999 Doctoral Dissertation
Proposals from the School of Public Policy
Contact Person: Thys Van Schaik, 3-8227, mvanscha@gmu.edu
New Course (Action Item):
EEP 609 Special Topics in Enterprise Engineering and Policy
Modified Courses (Announcement):
PUBP 998 Research/Proposal for Dissertation
PUBP 999 Dissertation
Proposals from the Office of the ProvostComputational Social Sciences
Contact Person: Claudio Cioffi, 3-1402, ccioffi@gmu.edu
New Program (Action Item):
Ph.D. in Computational Social Sciences
Grad Council Form    SCHEV Form
New Courses (Action Item):
CSS 605 Object-Oriented modeling in Social Science
CSS 625 Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences
CSS 630 Comparative Computational Social Science
CSS 635 Cognitive Foundations of Computational Social Science
CSS 640 Human and Social Evolutionary Complexity
CSS 650 Physics Methods for Analyzing Social Complexity
CSS 655 Social System Dynamics
CSS 660 Computational Social Science of Spacefaring Civilization
CSS 692 Social Network Analysis
VII. Adjournment